Comments on: USFK Spends Over $1 Million to Install New Gates at Yongsan

By: Dunwoody Garage Door

Dunwoody Garage Door — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:12:39 +0000

I cannot wait to see more of this beneficial topic. So much today Ive never even talked about. You sure did put a fresh twist on something that Ive heard a lot about. I dont believe Ive actually read whatever does this subject as good justice as you just simply did.

By: Marcus Ambrose

Marcus Ambrose — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:13:49 +0000

The entire western corridor was closed, which adds up to a pretty big camp. Stanley and CRC are practically deserted, same as Casey (at least compared to before).

If you could actually look at the population and equipment you could see that 2ID left, they just didn't tell anyone.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:45:49 +0000

They probably dream about it every night…in a very sexual manner.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:44:32 +0000

…and in the meantime budgets have been cut and people have been laid off. Is the USFK run by someone who used to work for the Canadian government?

By: Marcus Ambrose

Marcus Ambrose — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:22:27 +0000

For all of you confused about why there are still improvements on Yongsan:

Take a trip to Humphreys, you can see the build up happening. However, meeting the 2014 YRP deadline is not even close to being likely and the U.S. already made a mistake when they canceled a bunch of projects 10 years ago for YRP, which screwed the soldiers and civilians by having them live in bad facilities. The improvements on Yongsan now are designed for the next 5 years or so but not longer. Those improvements are paid for by the U.S. while YRP is paid for (mostly) by Korea.

As far as the PODs, they are planned for Humphreys as well. Will the ones in Yongsan be moved and reused? We hope so.

By: setnaffa

setnaffa — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:19:26 +0000

No one actually wants it to close but the real estate speculators…

By: Chaz022002

Chaz022002 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:05:23 +0000

Having been stationed in Korea 3 times over the last several years I'm here to tell you Yongsan isn't moving any time soon. We were told in 2004 when I was in Yongsan things were going to close in 3 years…well 5 years later they're still making improvements everywhere and hardly anyone has moved. I will say this there have been several closures of SMALL camps but no Major Camps are anywhere near shutting down.

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:34:42 +0000

Yes, I observed the same thing–massive infrastructure improvements going on all over Yongsan. It's almost as if no one is going anywhere anytime soon…

By: guitard

guitard — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:23:15 +0000

‏…but Yongsan Garrison is supposed to be closing and moving to Camp Humphreys in the coming years. Shouldn’t USFK being installing these gates over there instead?

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It's baffling…there is loads of construction, barracks remodeling, road re-surfacing, etc., etc. going on all over Area I and Area II.

Having said this…I'll be very surprised if Yongsan is closed by the end of the next decade. It's just going to be pushed back farther and farther.

By: Cloying_odor

Cloying_odor — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:48 +0000

This has all the makings of an Epic Fail.